Acts 9:29

“And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, etc.] He spoke the Gospel of Christ boldly, as it ought to be spoken; he spoke it openly, publicly, freely, and faithfully, not fearing the faces or revilings of any: the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions add, “to the Gentiles”; but this is not in any of the Greek copies: and disputed against the Grecians; or Hellenists, that is, the Hellenistical Jews; by whom are meant, not Greeks proselyted to the Jewish religion, but Jews who had been born and brought up in Greece, or at least had learned the Greek language, and used the Greek Bible; and so the Syriac version renders it, “he disputed with the Jews that knew Greek”; perhaps the same…”

“disputed against the Grecians--(See on Act 6:1); addressing himself specially to them, perhaps, as being of his own class, and that against which he had in the days of his ignorance been the fiercest. they went about to slay him--Thus was he made to feel, throughout his whole course, what he himself had made others so cruelly to feel, the cost of discipleship.”

“And spake boldly - He openly defended the doctrine that Jesus was the Messiah. In the name ... - By the authority of the Lord Jesus. Against the Grecians - See the word “Grecians” explained in the notes on Acts 6:1. It means that he not only maintained that Jesus was the Christ in the presence of those Jews who resided at Jerusalem, and who spoke the Hebrew language, but also before those foreign Jews who spoke the Greek language, and who had come up to Jerusalem. They would be as much opposed to the doctrine that Jesus was the Christ as those who resided in Jerusalem. They went about - They sought to slay him; or they formed a purpose to put him to death as an apostate. See Acts 9:23.…”

“9:29 Again Saul debated with some Greek-speaking Jews, and again an assassination was planned (cp. 9:22-24).”

“he spake: Act 9:20-22, Act 9:27 disputed: Act 6:9, Act 6:10, Act 17:17, Act 18:19, Act 19:8; Jde 1:3, Jde 1:9 Grecians: Act 6:1, Act 11:20 but: Act 9:23; Co2 11:26 Acts 9:30”